Refresh Cannon, multiplayer game played with a single avatar image — insanely clever, refresh to change angle and distance; also check out Refresh Hero, Refresh War, and just Refresh #

Time interviews Louis CK about consumer cynicism — his anecdotes on Conan about complaining passengers were all about himself #

The Biology of B-Movie Monsters — exploring the physiology of shrinking men, giant bugs, and E.T.; from 2003, but new to me (via) #

Jim Munroe's GDC: The Game — the Game Developers Conference organizers commissioned a playable text adventure about the show #

AUTO-MEME — there's an API, too #

Nieman Journalism Lab on @NPRBackstory — automated Twitter bot searches NPR's news archives for context for current news stories #

"You're," a printed portrait mashing up identity on various social sites — each portrait pulls in data from Flickr, Delicious, Twitter, and Last.fm (via) #

LA Times tracks the origin of SMS's 160 character limit — "This is perfectly sufficient." #

Jack Schulze discusses his influences for the Here & There maps — he has some interesting ideas about shifting perspective in first-person and God games #

Jay Leno's new ad slogan for Facebook — maybe this is his way of keeping up with Fallon #

Where Are You in the Movie? — if The Wizard of Oz spanned my lifetime, then Dorothy just met the Tin Man (via) #

MMMMound — "If it piles up, we post it." #

Fire alarm jam session — see also: car alarm and living room rave #

Danny Sullivan's preview of the Wolfram Alpha search engine — best explanation of what it does, and doesn't do, along with a good roundup of links #

Nedroid's Party Cat — party? party! #

Adblock Plus on their war with NoScript — you can read NoScript's deceptive rebuttal; cheating ad blockers only makes users angry (via) #

Paper Moon, monochrome Unity-based platformer inspired by pop-up books — the developers were featured in this week's great WSJ article on new business models for gaming #

Screenshots from Zen Bound's upcoming Nostalgia level pack — free update for all existing users #

High-res NASA moon landing photos restored by private fans in an abandoned McDonald's — amazing story about obsolete media preservation; start with the AP report and LA Times article, and work your way back (via) #

Jonathan Coulton's "First of May" performed in sign language — in case you need to know how to say "in flagrante delicto" in ASL (via) #

MP3: Cliffs of Nintendover — SLiVeR's jaw-dropping Eric Johnson cover recorded on a real NES #

Jack Schulze's incredible 3D horizonless map of Manhattan — currently running as a huge gatefold in Wired UK, prints are available with both directions (via) #

Pew study says churchgoers more likely to support torture — J-Walk notes that the threat of torture is a fundamental concept of hell #

Chris Messina on Comixology and the future of connected commerce — his local comic shop's iPhone integration lets you build a pull list waiting for you in the store #

79 versions of Popcorn, remixed into a single song — a hot mess, algorithmically beat-matched into a 12-minute collage with the Echo Nest remix API #

Lessig adds more details about the Warner Music DMCA request against him — oddly, none of the music in his presentation appears to belong to Warner #

Twitter launches integrated search for everyone — also: Twitter's admin section was hacked yesterday and screenshots were leaked; always interesting to see internal tools #

Android app turns G1 phone into a metal detector — using the internal digital compass (via) #

Recreating fear of heights in augmented reality — reminds me of this room-sized 3D demo, where you can see the subject's reflexes kick in #

Handmade grade-school book about the Apple //c from 1985 — "The most nesasary step to useing the computer is learning to program." (via) #

Rick Astley writes about Moot, 4chan, and the Rickrolling meme — "I find it bonkers, by the way!" (via) #

Interview with Dutch director of "What's In The Box?", Half-Life inspired short film — he made the video himself for about $150; click the icon on the bottom-right for subtitles #

Bandcamp easter egg turns traffic stats into Defender playfield — a closer view of the gameplay towards the end of their screencast #

Flickr's Stewart Butterfield and Cal Henderson working on social gaming startup — in other Flickr news, George Oates joined the Internet Archive and Rev. Dan Catt's off to the UK #

Rod Stewart joins Jeff Beck on stage for first time in 25 years — soundboard recordings of "People Get Ready" and "I Ain't Superstitious" #

Adventure 2600 Reboot — the classic Atari game remade in 16-bit graphics with new sounds; interview with the creator #

Motion Theory's Google Chrome ad — gorgeous animated evolution of browser UIs, plus greeked versions of popular Google sites #

Dan Gurewich's Real Life Twitter — he seems to be missing the self-consciousness gene #

Swine Flu amino acid sequence as ambient music — related: Has Madagascar Closed Its Port? (via) #

EveryBlock releases free iPhone app — look up health code violations at dinner and which street you're likely to get mugged on the way home #

Dreamhost's history of WebRing — sold for $3.5 million to Geocities, vested to $100M in Yahoo stock by 2000, and bought back for $10,000 #

The White House joins Flickr — incredible detail in the high-res versions, you can almost read his notes #

Google adds public data visualizations to search results — announced right before the Wolfram Alpha demo (via) #

Warner Music files DMCA request against Larry Lessig presentation — still unclear which one, but I'm not sure it matters; he's the king of fair use #

Farbs' resignation letter to 2K Australia — best resignation ever, from the creator of ROM CHECK FAIL, who's gone full indie #

Google's What's Popular — algorithm surfaces trending links culled from YouTube and Google Reader (via) #

Nizmlab, surfacing the best of YouTube and Vimeo — fed up with YouTube's most popular, they built an elegant community site (via) #

Type Nesting, photos of birds nesting in storefront signage — they seem to prefer capital Rs and As (via) #

How 4chan defeated reCAPTCHA to win the Time 100 Poll — Paul Lamere breaks down the brute force hack, optimized to crank out 200 votes per minute #

Jason Scott's progress update on mirroring Geocities — in 48 hours, Archive Team's already saved over 200,000 Geocities sites #